Creates LoCoMo benchmark dataset for very long-term LLM conversational memory and shows current models struggle with lengthy dialogues and long-range temporal dynamics.
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When not to trust language models: Investigating effectiveness of parametric and non-parametric memories
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SIOP enables turn-level credit assignment in LLM agents via semantic clustering of final answers as latent outcomes, improving performance on reasoning benchmarks without verifiers.
Sem-ECE is an asymptotically unbiased calibration error estimator for open-ended QA that uses semantic sampling of answers to derive confidence from class frequencies, with two variants that diverge on hard questions.
Decision theory shows that LLM cascades are structurally limited by always incurring the cheap model's cost before deciding to escalate, with the best performance given by the envelope of pairwise cascades rather than fixed chains or many stages.
Verbal-R3 uses a verbal reranker to generate analytic narratives that guide retrieval and reasoning in LLMs, achieving SOTA results on complex QA benchmarks.
LLMs often misalign their self-perceived need for tools with true need and utility, but lightweight estimators trained on hidden states can improve tool-calling decisions and task performance across multiple models and tasks.
R³AG routes queries to retrievers by decomposing capabilities into retrieval quality and generation utility, trained via contrastive learning on document assessments and downstream answer correctness to outperform static methods.
KnowledgeBerg benchmark shows open-source LLMs achieve only 5.26-36.88 F1 on universe enumeration and 16-44% accuracy on knowledge-grounded compositional reasoning, with persistent failures in completeness, awareness, and application.
NWCAD uses a two-stream setup with a two-stage gate to prevent accuracy drops on baseline-correct items under non-informative contexts while retaining gains from helpful contexts.
CiPO removes undesired knowledge from both intermediate reasoning steps and final answers in large reasoning models by iteratively optimizing preferences toward valid counterfactual traces while keeping overall reasoning performance intact.
LoVeC uses RL to train LLMs to output verbalized numerical confidence scores for statements in long-form text, achieving better calibration than self-consistency baselines on QA datasets while being 20x faster.
CRAG improves RAG robustness via a retrieval quality evaluator that triggers web augmentation and a decompose-recompose filter to focus on relevant information, yielding better results on short- and long-form generation tasks.
Exploration-Commitment Decoupling instantiated as Calibration-Aware Generation improves long-form factuality by up to 13% and reduces decoding time by up to 37% on five benchmarks.
QREAM rewrites documents to question-focused style using iterative ICL and distilled FT models, boosting RAG performance by up to 8% relative improvement.
IUQ quantifies claim-level uncertainty in long-form LLM generation by combining inter-sample consistency and intra-sample faithfulness through an interrogate-then-respond approach and outperforms baselines on two datasets.
The paper surveys hallucination in LLMs with an innovative taxonomy, factors, detection methods, benchmarks, mitigation strategies, and open research directions.
An adaptive thresholding mechanism combined with sliding-window reranking retrieves a query-dependent number of tables from large corpora, improving retrieval and downstream text-to-SQL performance on Spider, BIRD, and Spider 2.0.
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Evaluating Very Long-Term Conversational Memory of LLM Agents
Creates LoCoMo benchmark dataset for very long-term LLM conversational memory and shows current models struggle with lengthy dialogues and long-range temporal dynamics.
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Self-Induced Outcome Potential: Turn-Level Credit Assignment for Agents without Verifiers
SIOP enables turn-level credit assignment in LLM agents via semantic clustering of final answers as latent outcomes, improving performance on reasoning benchmarks without verifiers.
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A Semantic-Sampling Framework for Evaluating Calibration in Open-Ended Question Answering
Sem-ECE is an asymptotically unbiased calibration error estimator for open-ended QA that uses semantic sampling of answers to derive confidence from class frequencies, with two variants that diverge on hard questions.
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Is Escalation Worth It? A Decision-Theoretic Characterization of LLM Cascades
Decision theory shows that LLM cascades are structurally limited by always incurring the cheap model's cost before deciding to escalate, with the best performance given by the envelope of pairwise cascades rather than fixed chains or many stages.
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Verbal-R3: Verbal Reranker as the Missing Bridge between Retrieval and Reasoning
Verbal-R3 uses a verbal reranker to generate analytic narratives that guide retrieval and reasoning in LLMs, achieving SOTA results on complex QA benchmarks.
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To Call or Not to Call: A Framework to Assess and Optimize LLM Tool Calling
LLMs often misalign their self-perceived need for tools with true need and utility, but lightweight estimators trained on hidden states can improve tool-calling decisions and task performance across multiple models and tasks.
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R$^3$AG: Retriever Routing for Retrieval-Augmented Generation
R³AG routes queries to retrievers by decomposing capabilities into retrieval quality and generation utility, trained via contrastive learning on document assessments and downstream answer correctness to outperform static methods.
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KnowledgeBerg: Evaluating Systematic Knowledge Coverage and Compositional Reasoning in Large Language Models
KnowledgeBerg benchmark shows open-source LLMs achieve only 5.26-36.88 F1 on universe enumeration and 16-44% accuracy on knowledge-grounded compositional reasoning, with persistent failures in completeness, awareness, and application.
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No-Worse Context-Aware Decoding: Preventing Neutral Regression in Context-Conditioned Generation
NWCAD uses a two-stream setup with a two-stage gate to prevent accuracy drops on baseline-correct items under non-informative contexts while retaining gains from helpful contexts.
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CiPO: Counterfactual Unlearning for Large Reasoning Models through Iterative Preference Optimization
CiPO removes undesired knowledge from both intermediate reasoning steps and final answers in large reasoning models by iteratively optimizing preferences toward valid counterfactual traces while keeping overall reasoning performance intact.
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LoVeC: Reinforcement Learning for Better Verbalized Confidence in Long-Form Generations
LoVeC uses RL to train LLMs to output verbalized numerical confidence scores for statements in long-form text, achieving better calibration than self-consistency baselines on QA datasets while being 20x faster.
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Corrective Retrieval Augmented Generation
CRAG improves RAG robustness via a retrieval quality evaluator that triggers web augmentation and a decompose-recompose filter to focus on relevant information, yielding better results on short- and long-form generation tasks.
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Only Say What You Know: Calibration-Aware Generation for Long-Form Factuality
Exploration-Commitment Decoupling instantiated as Calibration-Aware Generation improves long-form factuality by up to 13% and reduces decoding time by up to 37% on five benchmarks.
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Align Documents to Questions: Question-Oriented Document Rewriting for Retrieval-Augmented Generation
QREAM rewrites documents to question-focused style using iterative ICL and distilled FT models, boosting RAG performance by up to 8% relative improvement.
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IUQ: Interrogative Uncertainty Quantification for Long-Form Large Language Model Generation
IUQ quantifies claim-level uncertainty in long-form LLM generation by combining inter-sample consistency and intra-sample faithfulness through an interrogate-then-respond approach and outperforms baselines on two datasets.
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A Survey on Hallucination in Large Language Models: Principles, Taxonomy, Challenges, and Open Questions
The paper surveys hallucination in LLMs with an innovative taxonomy, factors, detection methods, benchmarks, mitigation strategies, and open research directions.
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Retrieve Only Relevant Tables Whether Few or Many: Adaptive Table Retrieval Method
An adaptive thresholding mechanism combined with sliding-window reranking retrieves a query-dependent number of tables from large corpora, improving retrieval and downstream text-to-SQL performance on Spider, BIRD, and Spider 2.0.